New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Centre on a plea seeking compensation of Rs 4 lakh to the families of those who have died from coronavirus. A Vacation Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and M R Shah also asked the Centre to place before it the ICMR guidelines on issuance […]
Srinagar: The government on Monday declared black fungus or mucormycosis as an epidemic disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act- 1897. The Health and Medical Education issued a notification to declare black fungus as an epidemic disease. The move comes days after the government of India directed the states and union territories to make black fungus […]
GENEVA: At the opening of the World Health Organization’s main annual assembly on Monday, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hailed the sacrifices made by health workers around the world to battle the pandemic. At least 115,000 health and care workers have died from Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, the WHO chief said Monday, calling […]
Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday accused the administration of persecuting members of the Gujjar-Bakerwal communities by evicting them from forest areas. Her remarks came after reports claimed that an eviction drive by the forest department in the upper reaches of the Zampathri area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district turned violent after resistance by […]
Srinagar: DGP Dilbag Singh on Monday directed officials to use technology-based tools to identify and bring to book people using social media for anti-national and anti-social activities. The director general of police (DGP), while chairing a high-level security review meeting at the police headquarters here, also asked them to put in place effective measures for […]
Beijing: China on Monday again defended its USD 60 billion CPEC project with Pakistan, disregarding India’s protests as it is being laid through Pakistan administered Kashmir, saying it is an economic initiative and has not affected its principled stand on the Kashmir issue. Leaders of China and Pakistan have praised the progress of the China-Pakistan […]
New Delhi: India recorded 2,22,315 new corona virus infections in a single day, the lowest in round 38 days, pushing the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 2,67,52,447 out of which 2,37,28,011 patients have recuperated till date while the death toll crossed the 3-lakh mark, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday […]
HYDERABAD: Bharath Biotech may start clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin on children from June, a senior official of the vaccine-maker has said. Raches Ella, Head-Business Development and International Advocacy of Bharath Biotech, recently in a virtual conversation with members of FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO), Hyderabad, on “All About Vaccines”, said no vaccine offers […]
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that even though vaccination is the key to controlling the pandemic the government does not seem to care as he claimed reduction in daily inoculation in the country. He shared a graph showing the decline in the number of vaccine doses administered during April and May […]
DUBAI: A three-month monitoring deal between Tehran and the UN nuclear watchdog expired on Saturday, Iran’s parliament speaker told the country’s state TV on Sunday, adding that access to images of nuclear sites would cease. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, is to hold a conference on Sunday. He is in […]